Dampier
Americannoun
noun
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Dampier completed 21 of 25 passes for 206 yards and two touchdowns while running for 87 yards.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2025
Rio exports from Dampier port and through Cape Lambert in the northern part of Western Australia state.
From Reuters • Jun. 19, 2023
The group meets every week for dinner and conversation, but Dampier wishes it could be more.
From Fox News • Jan. 26, 2022
Dampier chose his career to support his insatiable interest in biology, and his field notes reveal a man easily distracted from the business of raiding a town by his delight at discovering colorful parrots.
From Washington Post • Jul. 14, 2021
Of the north-west Dampier had written: "The land is of a dry, sandy soil, destitute of water, unless you make wells, yet producing divers sorts of trees."
From Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information by Queensland
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